Our Courses

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Course Description: 

Understanding methods to manage simple and complex restorative issues are critical to improving patient acceptance and even long term ceramic success.  Methods to integrate the efforts of laboratory technologists and managing occlusion and patient’s desires can have a profound impact in the practice of dentistry.

Course Objectives:

–      Discover the importance of input from your laboratory technician in all phases of treatment.

–      Avoid remakes, lost time, and ultimately lost income by learning how to clearly convey the finer details of prosthesis construction.

–      Learn how to improve levels of communication by increasing your awareness of the laboratory environment, materials, and techniques used to create a final prosthesis.

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Course Description:

Oral conscious sedation has changed the face of dentistry. Intravenous access gives the sedation team the ability to better control onset, depth and duration of action. It also allows for analgesia and sedation, and does a better job of preventing hypoglycemia and hypovolemia. When combined with oral sedatives, this method allows the sedation team to enjoy the benefits of both, while minimizing the disadvantages of either. Discover why now might be the right time to take the plunge into IV conscious sedation.

Session Objectives:

– Learn the advantages and disadvantages of intravenous conscious sedation compared to other forms of conscious sedation.
– Gain the skills to determine who benefits most from the intravenous sedation route.
– Understand how to plan and train yourself and your team in order to safely and confidently provide IV conscious sedation.

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Third in a series of four, this session on Implant Overdentures A to Z will comprehensively outline the procedural steps in the Overdenture process including surgery and prostheses.

Learning Objectives for Session 3 – Start to Finish Clinical Steps:

– Clinical steps for this procedure will be outlined and explained in depth
– Implant surgery and prosthetic procedures will be thoroughly explained
– Step by step procedures will be given to make implementation simple, yet comprehensive

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Course Description:

Fear of dentistry prevents 30 percent of the population from seeking care and another 20 percent from accepting treatment. Provide anxious patients with comfortable treatment options that will open the door to a huge unmet need in the marketplace. Sedation allows the dental team to do more treatment, on more people, in fewer appointments. This webinar highlights the latest developments in this rapidly changing asset to the highly productive dental practice.

Session Objectives:

– Discover why the need for sedation is so huge.
– Learn how to appropriately diagnosis which patients are eligible for sedation.
– Examine how oral conscious sedation can be provided safely with predictable results.

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Course Description: 

Dental implants have become an integral part of dental practice today.  Maintaining predictability and high success rates impose great challenges to the dental team.  Edentulous ridge defects constitute a major problem.  In the past, long teeth have been placed into defects to take up vertical space.  Gingival and tooth symmetry and the esthetic results were often compromised.

Course Objectives:

-Understand the major factors in restoration of dental implants with complex conditions.

-Learn how augmentation of bone and soft tissue used to address gingival and tooth asymmetry may not yield a long-term predictable result

-Discover new techniques for utilizing ceramic gingival material and design for fixed prosthodontics.

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Second in a series of four on Implant Overdentures A to Z, this session will cover candidate selection, tissue evaluation and other practical aspects of overdenture placement.

Learning Objectives for Session 2 – Evaluating the Patient:

– You will learn how to evaluate a patient’s hard and soft tissue for an implant overdenture
– You will learn how to place implants in edentulous patients in a minimally invasive procedure
– Implant placement will be discussed in terms that dentists that are currently placing implants or would like to learn will understand
– Edentulous patients that are (and are not) a candidate for this procedure will be identified

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Comprised of four webinar sessions, this course will teach dentists each and every aspect of adding or increasing implant overdentures in a dental practice setting. We will not only discuss the clinical steps to creating success with implant overdentures, but how to market and systematize them into a practice situation. This will include practical systems to make implementation or increasing this much-needed procedure into dental practice.

Learning Objectives for Session 1- Benefits and Basics of Implant Overdentures:

– You will learn the benefits of implant overdentures to edentulous patients
– You will learn the benefits of implant overdentures to a dental practice
– You will learn the basics of how to implement or increase implant overdentures in your practice

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Whenever wants and needs from the marketplace intersect with the industry’s ability to provide it efficiently and effectively—there is opportunity. People have always wanted an attractive-looking smile, but they are less likely to remove healthy tooth structure to get it. They are also more cost-conscious and concerned about lengthy treatment time. This is why every general dentist should be able to perform short-term orthodontics that are cosmetic, predictable, affordable and fast.

Session Objectives:

Understand why the current marketplace is ripe with opportunity for short-term orthodontics such as cosmetic brackets and wires.

Discover what short-term orthodontics is and what distinguishes this method from aligner therapy and comprehensive orthodontics.

Learn how the patient’s chief cosmetic complaint can be solved efficiently, predictably and profitably with short-term orthodontics.

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You CAN Always Get What You Want: Marketing Sleep Apnea and Getting Paid by Insurance

What do even the most talented dentists in the world need?

Excellent marketing.

This installment will teach you how to effectively promote your sleep apnea treatment skills. No matter how refined your skills, you can only help a patient by first communicating with them effectively.

Successful marketing is the final ingredient in gaining thankful patients who not only return but recommend you to their family and friends.

Dr. Erin Elliott, an expert in the field of sleep apnea, will show you exactly how to budget your marketing expenses and create sharp and informative communication with potential patients. You will also learn how to productively communicate with insurance companies and Medicare.

No other installments need be viewed prior to this session.

Course objectives include the mastery of:

– Making your point: How to create impactful marketing.
– Intelligent budgeting: Where to spend your marketing time and money.
– Handling challenges with finesse: How to communicate with insurance companies.
– Taking care of business: How to handle insurance billing and coding.

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Nuts and Bolts: Implementing Sleep Apnea Into Your Practice

A vital part of creating truly positive change is knowing how to implement effective treatment.

Dr. Elliott will show you how to do just that. When patients enter your practice and you can identify the signs of sleep apnea, you have an opportunity to change their lives forever. This webinar will focus on the actual how-tos of implementing sleep apnea treatment into your practice.

In this complimentary session she will explain exactly how to implement your treatment skills. All logistical and practical concerns will be addressed, including:

First impressions: Learn how to train your team for a successful first phone call and consultation.Whether the caller is a new or existing patient, Dr. Elliott will explain exactly how to ensure the patient is comfortable, informed and happy both via phone and in-person.

Step by step: Learn how to create proper impression techniques, bite capturing and foster lab communication.

Follow through: Dr. Elliott will address delivery and follow-up appointments including how to handle side effects and how to measure efficacy.

No other installments need be viewed prior to this session.